Socialist Realist Painting During the Stalinist Era (1934-1941) : the High Art of Mass Art.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780773419223
- 0773419225
- 709.4709043 759.7/09043
- ND688.5.S64 R87 2010
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This book argues that Socialist Realist paintings, typically seen by western art historians as examples of retrograde art and by scholars of Soviet history simply as propaganda, were a part of an extensive program of skillful artistic practice coupled with masterful propaganda. This book contains fourteen color photographs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The inception of socialist realism : style, subject, and context -- Soviet art history and the interpretation of Russian nineteenth century realist painting -- Realism's respite : the affect of modern art on images of peasants -- The return to realism : 1922 to 1934 -- Socialist realism in action -- Socialist realism as art for the masses and art by the masses -- Conclusion.
English.
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